Curriculum Vitae
Stephanie Deshpande (b. 1975, United States)
Education:
1999 MFA cum laude, Painting, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1997 BFA magna cum laude, Common Wealth Scholar with Departmental Honors,
Painting, Art History, English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
2013 Web Design Certificate, Noble Desktop, New York, NY
2013 Digital Publishing Certificate, Noble Desktop, New York, NY
1996 Yale’s Summer Art Program at Norfolk, CT,
1996 Studio Training under Paul Ingbretson and Meg Mercier
Teaching Experience:
2017 Visiting Instructor, National Art League, Douglaston, NY
2014- Visiting Instructor, The Teaching Studios of Art, Oyster Bay, NY
2017- Visiting Instructor, Studio West, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Guest Artist, Art League of Nassau County, NY
2014- Visiting Instructor, Chelsea Classical Studio, Chelsea, NY
2014 Visiting Instructor, Martinsville Studio, Martinsville, NJ
2013 Guest Artist, West Essex Art Association, Crane’s Mill Town Square, NJ
2011 Guest Instructor, Girl Scouts Troop, Glen Ridge, NJ
1999 Assistant Teacher, Washington-Irving High School, New York, NY
1993 Assistant Teacher, Pine Hill School, Sherborn, MA
Honors:
2016 Finalist, 2015/2016 ARC International Salon, Art Renewal Center
2016 Finalist, Still Life/Interior category in Artist’s Magazine’s 33rd Annual Art Competition
2016 Finalist, Portrait/Figure category in Artist’s Magazine’s 33rd Annual Art Competition
2016 Finalist, Portrait/Figure category in Artist’s Magazine’s 33rd Annual Art Competition
2016 Honorable Mention, oil painting in the 2015 Artist’s Magazine All-Media Competition
2016 Semifinalist, BP Portriat Award, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2015 7th Honorable Mention for Still Life Category, Member’s Only Competition, PSoA
2015 Allied Artists of America Silver Medal of Honor, Allied Artists of America
2015 Award winner, 8th Annual Fine Art Competition, RayMar Art
2015 Finalist, 2014/2015 ARC International Salon, Art Renewal Center
2014 1st Merit, Non-Commissioned Portrait, Member’s Only Competition, PSoA
2014 American Artist Professional League Award, CLWAC 118th Annual Open Exhibition
2014 September Finalist, RayMar Art Competition
2014 John Young-Hunter Memorial Award for Painting, Allied Artists of America
2014 Honorable Mention, OPA Summer 2014 Online Showcase, Oil Painters of America
2014 July Finalist, RayMar Art Competition
2014 Honorable Mention, Artist’s Magazine’s 30th Annual Art Competition
2014 June Best of Show, RayMar Art Competition
2014 ARC Staff Prize, 2013/2014 ARC International Salon, Art Renewal Center
2014 Finalist, 2013/2014 ARC International Salon, Art Renewal Center
2014 Honorable Mention, 2014 International Portrait Portfolio Competition, PSoA
2013 3rd Honorable Mention for Outside the Box, Member’s Only Competition, PSoA
2012 Honorable Mention for painting in Artist’s Magazine’s 29th Annual Art Competition
2012 Best in Show, Images 2012: The Juried Exhibition of the Central Pennsylvania
Festival of the Arts, Robeson Gallery, PA
2011 Finalist, ACOPAL’s Contemporary American and Chinese Realism Competition
1999 Richild von Holtzbrinck Award, The National Arts Club, NY
1999 First Place, 10th Annual Juried Painting Exhibition, Synchronicity Space, NY
1997 Chancellor’s Talent Award, UMass Amherst
1997 External Jury for an Award, UMass Amherst
1997 Award of Excellence, Department of Art, UMass Amherst
1997 Internal Jury for an Area Award in Painting, UMass Amherst
1996 Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Music and Art
1996 Chancellor’s Talent Award, UMass Amherst
1996 William F. Field Alumni Scholars Award, UMass Amherst
1996 Internal Jury for an Area Award in Painting, UMass Amherst
1996 External Jury for an Award, UMass Amherst
1996 Internal Jury for Award of Excellence, UMass Amherst
1996 Area Award in Painting, UMass Amherst
1995 Chancellor’s Talent Award, UMass Amherst
1994 Award of Excellence, Department of Art, UMass Amherst
1994 Chancellor’s Talent Award, UMass Amherst
Solo Exhibitions:
2004 Looking Inward, Belenky Gallery, NY, January 2004
1997 The Unspoken Configuration, Visual and Performing Arts Space, UMass
1997 Solo Exhibition, Rao’s, Amherst, MA
Group Exhibitions:
2017 WPW: In Earnest, Clarksville-Montgomery County Museum, Clarksville, TN
2017 WPW: In Earnest, J. Wayne Stark Galleries, College Station, TX
2017 National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils, OPA, Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2017 Sight Unseen, Abend Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 Root to Bloom, Principle Gallery, Alexandria, VA
2016 Take Home a Nude, NYAA, Sotheby’s, NYC
2016 Allied Artists of America 2016 Annual Exhibition, Salmagundi Club, NY
2016 Eastern Regional Exhibition of Traditional Oils, OPA, Eisele Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2016 Reinventing Ourselves from Another Point, 33 Contemporary, Chicago, IL
2016 Tribute to the Emanuel Nine – A Portrait Project, Principle Gallery Charleston, SC
2016 National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils, OPA, Southwest Gallery, Dallas, TX
2015 119th Annual Exhibition, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, National Arts Club, NY
2015 31st Anniversary Exhibition, Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2015 Women Painting Women, Richard J. Demato Fine Arts Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
2015 American Artists and the Allure of the East, Schomburg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 102nd Annual Exhibition, Allied Artists of America, Salmagundi Club, NY
2015 National Juried Exhibition, OPA, Cutter & Cutter Fine Art, St. Augustine, FL
2014 118th Annual Exhibition, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, National Arts Club, NY
2014 The Retreat’s 6th Annual Juried Art Show, RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
2014 Women Painting Women, Richard J. Demato Fine Arts Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
2014 A Little Night Art XIV, Montclair Art Walk 2014, Montclair, NJ
2014 Take Home a Nude, NYAA, Sotheby’s, NYC
2014 Women Painting Women, Principle Gallery Charleston, Charleston, SC
2014 101st Annual Exhibition, Allied Artists of America, Salmagundi Club, NY
2014 LIC Conception Event, SPACE Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2013 117th Annual Exhibition, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, National Arts Club, NY
2013 Women Painting Women: A Universal Alliance,, Gallery U Boutique, NJ
2012 Images 2012: Juried Exhibition of the Central Pennsylvania, Robeson Gallery, PA
2012 CONCEPTION Tribeca IV, Group Show, NY
2012 CONCEPTION Tribeca II, Group Show, NY
2011 CONCEPTION Tribeca, Group Show, NY
1999 Take Home a Nude, New York Academy of Art, Manhattan, NY
1999 Group Exhibition, The National Arts Club, Manhattan, NY
1999 10th Annual Juried Painting Exhibition, Synchronicity Space, Manhattan, NY
1999 Group Show, Tristan & America, NY
1997 Cast Hall Exhibition, NYAA, Manhattan, NY
1997 Junior/Senior Awards Exhibition (Juried), Herter Gallery, UMass Amherst
1996 Junior/Senior Awards Exhibition, May 20-26, 1996, Amherst, MA
1996 Yale at Norfolk, Group Show, Norfolk, CT
1995 Five College Art Exhibition, Johnson Gallery, Hampshire College, MA
Collections:
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Rev. Anthony Thompson, Charleston, SC (private)
Bibliography:
Alia El-Bermani, “Sight Unseen,” Poets Artist, Issue 81, February 2017, 20.
Jan Esmann, “21st Century Figurative Art: The Resurrection of Art,” Blue Pearl, 2016. 60-67.
McKenzie Graham, “Portraits of the Emanuel Nine: Mourning and Remembering,” Artists Network, August 29, 2016. http://www.artistsnetwork.com/art-blogs/the-artists-magazine-blog/portraits-emanuel-nine-mourning-remembering
Didi Menendez, “Reinventing Ourselves from Another Point of View,” Poets Artist, Issue 75, July 2016, 50.
“Stephanie Deshpande Oil Still Life Demonstration,” The Art League of Nassau County, January 2017. http://www.stephaniedeshpande.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/ALNC-January.pdf
Lisa Weismann, “Myra Thompson’s family relying on faith since Emanuel AME shooting,” Live 5 News, Charleston SC, June 14, 2016. http://www.live5news.com/story/32223115/myra-thompsons-family-relying-on-faith-since-emanuel-ame-shooting
Lisa Weismann, “Artists donate talent for Emanuel AME victim portrait,” Live 5 News, Charleston SC, May 30, 2016. http://www.live5news.com/story/32098215/artists-donate-talent-for-emanuel-ame-victim-portraits
“Charleston portrait project pays tribute to Emanuel 9,” News 2, Charleston SC, May 28, 2016. http://counton2.com/2016/05/28/principle-gallery-charleston-to-unveil-emanuel-9-portrait-project/
“Oil Painters of America, The Venerable Organization Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary Exhibition in Dallas,” Southwest Art, May 2016. 79. http://www.stephaniedeshpande.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OPAswa_may_2016web.pdf
“Portfolio: Oil Painters of America — The venerable organization celebrates its 25th anniversary exhibition in Dallas,” Southwest Art, April 15, 2016. http://www.southwestart.com/articles-interviews/feature-articles/portfolio-oil-painters-of-america
Daniel Maidman, “Devotion,” Poets Artist, Issue 68, November 2015, 12-13.
“ART SEEN: Opening of “Women Painting Women” at RJD Gallery,” Hamptons Art Hub, October 18, 2015. http://hamptonsarthub.com/2015/10/18/art-seen-opening-of-women-painting-women-at-rjd-gallery/
“Women Painting Women at RJD Gallery 2015,” RJD Gallery, Oct. 15, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuFeZapU6M
Andrew Webster, “The New East,” fine Art Connoisseur, September 10, 2015. http://fineartconnoisseur.com/2015/09/the-new-east/21949142/
Debby Bird, “Painting Parent: Stephanie Deshpande,” Is It Time to Color? (blog). February 13, 2015. http://debbybird.blogspot.com/2015/02/painting-parent-stephanie-deshpande.html
Judy Takács, “Our Portraits Our Selves…The Youthful Doppelgänger,” Portrait Society of America: Cecilia Beaux Forum (blog). January 11, 2015. http://portraitsocietyceciliabeauxforum.blogspot.com/2015/01/our-portraits-our-selvesthe-youthful.html
“Women Painting Women: International Juried Exhibition + 5th Anniversary Collector Preview,” Principle Gallery Charleston, September 2014. 12. https://principlegallery.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/preview_wpw1.pdf
Jordan Hubbert, “Artist Thirty-Nine: Stephanie Deshpande,” Artist’s Know Where to Draw the Line(blog). July 2, 2014. http://hubbertsartists.blogspot.com/2014/07/artist-thirty-nine-stephanie-deshpande.html?showComment=1405103460955#c7218215542268939353
Judy Takács, “Oriple Identity…Making a name for yourself when you actually have three,” Portrait Society of America: Cecilia Beaux Forum (blog). July 7, 2014. http://portraitsocietyceciliabeauxforum.blogspot.com/2014/07/triple-identitymaking-name-for-yourself.html
Diane Feissel, “Stephanie Deshpande,” Women Painting Women (blog), March 20, 2013. http://www.womenpaintingwomen.blogspot.com/2013/03/stephanie-deshpande.html
Maureen Bloomfield, “29th Annual Art Competition: Portrait, Figure,” Artist’s Magazine, December 2012. 56-61.
Cherie Haas, “Portrait/Figure Winners in the 2012 Annual Art Competition,” Artist’s Network, November 6, 2012. http://www.artistsnetwork.com/subject/p,ortrait-figure/portraitfigure-winners-in-the-2012-annual-art-competition
“Conception Events continues to unveil new talent to Tribeca,” Arte Fuse, July 17, 2012. http://artefuse.com/2012/07/conception-returns/
Chris Rosenblum, “Living Local: Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts Images 2012,” Centre Daily Times, centredaily.com, July 1, 2012. http://www.centredaily.com/2012/07/01/3246917/living-local-central-pennsylvania.html
“Stephanie Deshpande,” The New York Optimist, June 30, 2012.
http://www.thenewyorkoptimist.com/StephanieDeshpandeJUne30_2012.html
Rick Bryant, “The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts announced the prize winners of Images 2012,”
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, June 12, 2012. http://www.arts-festival.com/press_releases.php
Publications as Author:
“The Search for Academic Training,” Artists on Art Summer 2014. 18-21.
https://www.artists-on-art.com/wp-content/magazine/assets/11summer/pdf/11summer.pdf
“Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian,” Portrait Society of America: Cecilia Beaux Forum (blog). March 14, 2014. http://portraitsocietyceciliabeauxforum.blogspot.com/2014/03/overcoming-all-obstacles-women-of.html
Professional Organizations:
Portrait Society of America,Tallahassee, FL
Allied Artists of America, New York, NY
Oil Painters of America, Crystal Lake, Illinois
American Women Artists, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Professional Service:
Portrait Society of America, Cecilia Beaux Forum: New Media Committee Chair
